Increase salary or face strike, university lecturers
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- 09 Aug 2022
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Lecturers at various universities in Ethiopia have formally requested the government to increase wages and make adjustment on their work grades in unison, or face consequences that may result in strikes.
Associations of various universities’ teachers have been issuing their stances unilaterally calling for promotion to a higher work grades and salary adjustment under their respective associations.
On August 3, 2022, the associations issued an ultimatum addressing the Ministry of Education, Civil Service Commission, Ethiopian Teachers Association, and Government Whip & Human Resource Development Standing Committee at the House of People’s Representatives (HoPR).
In their letter, the lecturers’ associations explained that for any action the teachers might take, which may result in a massive crisis affecting the educational processes, the students and their families, executives of the associations aren’t responsible.
“We request for the Ministry of Education or any concerned government organ to receive our requests and provide a positive response in good time,” the letter reads.
Several lecturers through their own platforms have been calling for strikes. Initially it was planned to happen during the current month but later postponed to September, at a time when the academic year begins.
Yohannes Benti (PhD), who leads the Ethiopian Teachers Association as its president, has been following the case closely. The university teachers associations are under his office’s umbrella. He was participating in the overall Job Evaluation and Grading (JEG) studies since 2014 until coming to application in 2019 with 22 work grades.
With the back and forth agreements among the association, the Ministry and the Civil Service Commission, the scales have been adjusted to the general education teachers in high school. Read More...
